Ep. 259 - 9 Questions For Robert Mueller
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Summary
The special counsel gets aggressive and President Trump takes on joint defense agreements with former staffers. But while the mainstream media focus on trivial details, we will turn the focus back onto the special counsel investigation and ask nine questions that Robert Mueller must answer to prove that his investigation is anything more than a partisan hit job.
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The special counsel gets aggressive and President Trump takes on joint defense agreements with
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former staffers. But while the mainstream media focus on trivial details, we will turn the focus
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back onto the special counsel investigation and ask nine questions that Robert Mueller must answer
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to prove that his investigation is anything more than the partisan hit job that it appears to be.
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Then, President Trump threatens to shut down the government over the border wall. Great idea.
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Democrats try to paint Ivanka Trump as Hillary Clinton. I'll abstain from the obvious jokes that
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come from that headline. Texas mother tries to castrate her son. And John Bolton sheds some
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sanity on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. A lot to get to. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael
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Knowles Show. Only when I am on the road and it is very inconvenient for me do the news headlines just
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explode. There is so much more out here with the Bob Mueller investigation and a lot of questions
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for him that Republicans and conservatives should start asking. We should stop defending,
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start going on the offense. I'll have nine questions that he has to answer. But first,
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this Mueller investigation. What they are trying to do is just totally confuse you with a bunch
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of ridiculous, unnecessary details and meaningless, trivial, interpersonal relationships among Roger
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Stone and Paul Manafort and this guy and that guy and Jerome Corsi and all of this. And so you get
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this deluge of headlines from CNN or wherever and you think, oh gosh, I don't know what's happening,
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but you know, this side has a point and that side has a point. We'll see where the investigation goes.
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This is their strategy. All of the questions that are being asked right now should be asked of the
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independent, of the special counsel rather of Bob Mueller. What is the issue right now? Just to clear
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it up, the Mueller investigation is getting very aggressive. There is word that's been leaked to
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the press of a joint defense agreements between Jerome Corsi and Donald Trump, that right-wing writer
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and journalist and sort of conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi and Donald Trump of agreements where Paul
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Manafort now is apparently briefing the Trump team on what Mueller has been asking him. You'll
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remember a little while ago, Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, entered into a plea agreement
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with the special counsel. So he said he'd cooperate in exchange for getting out of jail a little bit
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early. Now we find out it seems that the Manafort team has been briefing the Trump legal defense team
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on all of the questions and all of the tactics that Bob Mueller is using. So Paul Manafort,
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classic Washington lobbyist, looks like he's playing both sides right now. When it came out
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that Paul Manafort entered into a plea agreement, I was a little confused. Paul Manafort seemed like
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the kind of guy, especially with a name like Manafort, you know, he's the kind of guy who
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will deny till you die. He doesn't want to be a rat. He doesn't want to turn on his friends. He's been
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a GOP operative since he was in the womb, since the 70s and 80s. So I was a little surprised. Now it
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looks like he actually was feeding some information to the Trump team. So that's pretty interesting.
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They're going to try to blow this out of proportion and say that a joint defense agreement
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between one guy being investigated and another guy being investigated is nefarious and it's wrong and
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it's illegal. None of that is true. This is a very common occurrence, especially when the same
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prosecutor is going after a bunch of different people. Very common and it looks like that's what's
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happening here. So what is the issue? Why do they need these joint defense agreements?
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To catch you up, we went through this a little bit yesterday. Right now, Roger Stone, long time
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GOP operative and advisor to Donald Trump. Roger Stone is under fire because he tweeted out,
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quote, trust me, it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel. Referring to John Podesta,
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the head of the Hillary Clinton campaign. He tweeted that out one week before WikiLeaks released
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John Podesta's hacked emails. So now the spotlight is on Roger Stone. It's on Roger Stone's confidants,
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Jerome Corsi, other people he worked with, over how he knew that WikiLeaks had those hacked emails.
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Now, what Roger Stone is saying is he knew that John Podesta would get his because Jerome Corsi had
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written a memo about John Podesta's lobbying work. So what Roger Stone is saying is, oh, that tweet
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and Podesta's time in the barrel, that doesn't refer to hacked emails. That refers to all of his
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nefarious lobbying work that's going to eventually land him in hot water. Jerome Corsi says this is BS.
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Corsi says that nine days after Stone sent that tweet, Roger Stone called asking for a backstory.
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He said, Jerome, you got to help me out. They're going to go after me for this WikiLeaks tweet.
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Make up a memo about John Podesta that I can say was what I was referring to in the tweet.
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Okay. That's what Corsi says. Roger Stone typically denies this. And he says that Jerome Corsi is just
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contradicting Roger Stone because he's being squeezed. So you got these two guys, one who was
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a Trump advisor for a long time, another guy who's a more fringy right-wing figure who's met Trump,
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I guess, a couple of times. Neither of them are especially trustworthy. So you've got to read between
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the lines. And really their trustworthiness is beyond the point because the fact that the
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Mueller investigation is going after them is the real issue here. Why? What's at stake? Why they're
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not going after Democrats? But just listen to the language. So this is Jerome Corsi. In his denial,
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he says, quote, what I construct and what I testified to the grand jury was I believed I was creating a
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cover story for Roger because Roger wanted to explain this tweet. Okay. What I construct and what I
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testified to the... So he's not, he's not emphatically saying this is what happened. He's saying what I
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construct. That's a curious choice of words. Maybe he's not telling the whole story. Roger Stone, for his
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part, says this, quote, I steadfastly maintain that Jerry, Jerome Corsi, who had been researching the
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Podesta brothers, brought their business dealings to my attention. And that is what prompted my tweet.
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Now, that is a true statement. It's a true statement that Roger Stone steadfastly maintains
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this. The question is, is it true? Is Roger Stone telling the truth when he maintains that? The
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construction of that sentence also a little mealy-mouthed with the words. We have what I
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construct. Okay. That's true. And what I steadfastly maintain. Okay. That's true. Who's telling the truth?
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We don't know. Listen to this from Jerome Corsi, though. He says later on, by the way, the special
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counsel knew that I was creating a cover story for Roger. They can virtually tell my keystrokes
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on that computer. So clearly they took Jerome Corsi's computer. They're saying this document
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was created on this date. They can tell what he was doing. He's been now under investigation for a
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while. I do not bring this up to go after Jerome Corsi or Roger Stone. They can take care of
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themselves. What I bring this up to as a preface to is why are we even talking about these guys in
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the first place? Why are we talking about Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, conservative writers,
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media figures? We're talking about them because Donald Trump won the presidency and he wasn't supposed
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to. Hillary was supposed to win. They had all decided it. The FBI decided it. Peter Strzok decided
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Hillary was supposed to win. Obama said Hillary was supposed to win. The administrative state,
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they were, that's what was supposed to happen. And then Donald Trump came in and messed up their plans.
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And then Donald Trump won. And now we've got endless investigations into figures who are peripheral,
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who are ancillary to the campaign, who are, they're just digging for anything to get these guys,
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to punish them for committing the unforgivable sin of working for Donald Trump. So that's fine.
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One issue here is that even in the conservative media, people are harping on this. I mean,
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we've got to cover it. This is a major story. You got to talk, but people are spending all of their
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time talking about it. They're not spending any of their time talking about Bob Mueller or the FBI
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or the Obama appointed officials who were going in there, going after Trump from the early days of
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the campaign. Why not? Why aren't we doing that? You know, Ronald Reagan said, if you're explaining,
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you're losing. What he means by that is if you're on defense, if you're playing political defense
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and you're just answering the allegations of the other side, you are losing because you're
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playing on their turf. You're playing by their rules and they're going to get you. The classic
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political line is, when did you stop beating your wife? Excuse me, Senator, when did you stop beating
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your wife? Any answer you give justifies their premise. We shouldn't do that. So I have nine
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questions for Robert Mueller and the special counsel because this special counsel investigation
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stinks to high heaven. The whole Russia investigation stinks to high heaven and they need to answer nine
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questions before we can conclude that this is not just the partisan hit job that it certainly seems
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to be. Here's the first question. May 23rd, 2016. Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce
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Orr's wife, Nellie Orr, goes on the payroll of Fusion GPS. You'll remember Fusion GPS is the political
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shop behind the Steele dossier, that dossier with all that scintillating false information about Donald
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Trump. So Nellie Orr, the wife of the Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Orr, is working on anti-Trump
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opposition research. Bruce Orr did not disclose this major conflict of interest. Why not? Why didn't he
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disclose it? Did he forget? Did it not occur to him that this was a major conflict of interest?
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Did Fusion GPS know who Nellie Orr was? I think they probably did. Her last name's Orr. First question,
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why did he not disclose that? Second question, May 2016. Low-level staffer George Papadopoulos
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tells Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that he knows that Russia has dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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Then the Australian diplomat Downer passes this information along to the U.S. Embassy.
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What were the circumstances of that meeting? Why was George Papadopoulos meeting with this Australian
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diplomat, Alexander Downer? Who set that up? Who invited whom to that meeting? What was the meeting
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about? What was the ostensible purpose? Maybe George Papadopoulos just liked the cut of Alexander
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Downer's jib and wanted to have a drink with him. Or maybe there was a purpose to that meeting on the
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part of Downer or on the part of U.S. intelligence services or on the part of U.S. elected officials.
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Maybe that meeting was a setup. I'm not saying it was. I just don't know. What were the circumstances
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of that meeting? That's the second question. Third question, June 2016. The FBI applies for a FISA
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warrant. A FISA warrant is the warrant that you need to surveil and to monitor Americans. They want
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a FISA warrant to monitor four members of the Trump campaign. The FISA court judge denied those
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requests. What sequence of events led to that request and why was that request denied? You might say,
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oh, well, they didn't have enough dirt. The FISA court judge didn't think they had enough dirt on the
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Trump campaign people. Okay. Well, first question, why were they ordering it in the first place?
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Second question, why was it denied? And a lot of people don't know this. In the history of the
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FISA court, there have been 40,668 requests as of the end of 2017. Do you know how many of those
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requests were denied? 85. Not 8,500 or an 85,000 request denied. Out of over 40,000 requests that were
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granted. Compared to that, there were only 85 that were denied. How come four of those 85 were this
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particular request to monitor people on the Trump campaign? That must have been a pretty weak
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application. That must have been a pretty weak, shaky grounds to monitor those Trump campaign members.
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So if it was so shaky that the FISA court judge would, in a very, very rare instance, not grant the
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FISA request, why was the request made in the first place? Who ordered that request? It is
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virtually impossible to have your FISA request denied. So who made it? What were the circumstances?
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They didn't have good evidence. So what was that about? Was it political? Was it a way simply to
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monitor the Trump campaign as it certainly looks like? Good question. Thank you, Michael. Good question.
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All right. That's the third question. Fourth question. June, 2016. The DNC's computer system
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is hacked. Yet, the DNC refuses to allow the FBI to examine the computer systems.
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Why wouldn't the DNC let the FBI examine those systems? This was a hack. Apparently,
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hacking was a big issue in the 2016 campaign. The FBI has been running roughshod over Republicans,
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over the elected president, over his campaign staffers. Why did the DNC refuse to allow the FBI
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to examine those systems? And why did the FBI take no for an answer? The FBI has no problem kicking
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down Paul Manafort's door in the middle of the night, has no problem seizing Jerome Corsi's
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computer, monitoring his keystrokes. So why would they take no for an answer from the DNC? And what
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was the DNC hiding? I don't know. But it seems like there are a lot of shady things going on and a lot
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of rare occurrences. Obviously, shady things go on in the federal government, sure. But it seems like
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these are particularly shady. So shady that they drew the attention of a FISA court judge and so on.
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Sixth question. July 2016, Peter Strzok opens a counterintelligence investigation into Russian
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meddling in the election. This investigation ostensibly was spurred by George Papadopoulos'
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meeting with the Australian diplomat. That was July 31st, I believe, 2016. Fifteen days later,
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Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page about the insurance policy in case Trump is elected. So you've got
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Peter Strzok. He's not some low-level staffer, not some low-level FBI guy. He is the man. He is the guy
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who's opening this counterintelligence investigation. Not a criminal investigation, counterintelligence
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investigation into Russian meddling. It's apparently based on this bizarre meeting where George
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Papadopoulos meets with a diplomat. The diplomat instantly goes running to U.S. intelligence.
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So what is this insurance policy? What does that insurance policy have to do with the meeting?
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What does that insurance policy have to do with the investigation? The timing is really suspect
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and it stinks to high heaven. Seventh question. In September, no, sixth question. I don't know. I
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lost count. My next question. In September, the FBI hires the writer of that infamous Steele dossier,
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Christopher Steele. The point of contact here is Bruce Orr. So you've got this guy, Christopher Steele.
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He's an ex-intelligence guy in Britain. He compiles this dossier on behalf of private clients,
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on behalf of the DNC and Hillary Clinton and other people. And then the FBI hires him.
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And his point of contact there is Bruce Orr, whose wife Nellie Orr is working with Fusion GPS,
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which ordered the damn dossier in the first place. A lot of people sleeping in bed together,
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well, literally in the case of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and figuratively in the case of Bruce
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Orr, Nellie Orr, Christopher Steele, and the FBI. At this point, I still think Bruce Orr has not
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disclosed publicly that his wife is working for Fusion GPS. So they hire him. And now, so at this
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point, they've got Christopher Steele on the payroll. Why don't, why doesn't Bruce Orr disclose
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that his wife is working with Fusion GPS? At this point, we can no longer say, oh, he forgot.
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Oh, it slipped his mind. I mean, we could never say that anyway, but maybe give him the benefit
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of the doubt. At this point, we certainly cannot say that. So why didn't he disclose it? What was
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he trying to hide? Then on October 31st, Mother Jones, the left-wing newspaper, left-wing magazine,
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breaks the story of the Steele dossier. Until this point, until October 31st, we don't know what the
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Steele dossier is. We don't know about the Trump urine alleged tape thing that almost certainly
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doesn't exist. We don't know about any of this. This has all been behind closed doors. Mother Jones
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breaks the story on the Steele dossier, October 31st. The FBI almost immediately ends its relationship
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with Christopher Steele. Why? Was that relationship not above board? Was that relationship a little bit
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of a political hit job, a little too political insidery? Is that what that was about? If the
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Christopher Steele relationship, the formal relationship with the FBI, was totally above
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board, then why did the FBI instantly end it the minute that that became public? Timing, again, way
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too suspect. Summer 2017 comes around. The Inspector General discovers the Peter Strzok and Lisa Page texts.
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These are the texts between these two FBI agent lovers having an adulterous affair with one another
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who say, we're going to stop Trump from becoming president. We're going to use the power of the
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state to prevent him from becoming president. Only at this point does Mueller remove Strzok and Page
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from the Russia investigation. Now, my question here, and we're told Robert Mueller is totally above
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board. He is this unimpeachable guy. He's a shark. We know he's a shark. He's an excellent
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investigator. He's going to go out. He's going to find every single thing. Are we really then supposed
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to believe that Robert Mueller didn't know that his lead agent, the top agent on the investigation,
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that he didn't know that that agent had an anti-Trump bias until he saw these texts, until
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the texts become public because of the Inspector General. Bob Mueller is such a good investigator.
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Bob Mueller, former head of the FBI. This guy couldn't discern that there was something going on
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with his top agent. Very hard to believe. Really, a little too much for credibility.
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Okay, final question. December 2017. Andy McCabe admits the FBI wiretap of Carter Page would not
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have been approved if not for the Steele dossier. You've got this disgraced FBI agent Andy McCabe
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admitting the FBI wiretap of former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, would not have been approved if
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not for the Steele dossier, which means that the FBI, using that Steele dossier, colluded with the
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DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, which funded the Steele dossier. And it means they colluded with
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the Russians, by the way, because all of that information that was in the Steele dossier came
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from the Russians. It's the only place it could have come from. It means that the DNC, the FBI,
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Clinton, and the Russians were in bed together to go after Donald Trump. Who's investigating that?
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Where's that investigation? We know that. Andy McCabe, FBI, ex-FBI agent now, admitted that.
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Where is the investigation into that? Where are the investigations into those relationships?
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Into the oars, into Fusion GPS? Those investigations seem a lot more pressing than how Paul Manafort
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was able to buy nice suits in the year 2013. Or how Jerome Corsi is going to write another book
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on some conspiracy. That seems a lot more pressing. And nobody's going after it, and we should. And this
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is all Republicans should be talking about. I mean, listen, the inner turmoil of whether Donald Trump
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still likes Jerome Corsi or if he read his book. I guess that's sort of interesting coffee shop
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conversation. But the real questions here are all about this Mueller investigation, the prior Russia
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investigation, how it all came about, and who was behind it. Because it stinks to high heaven,
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and if Republicans are smart, they'll spend a lot of time harping on it.
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Now back to President Trump. Back to non-Russia politics. I know they're constantly trying to
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give this whiff of scandal all over the administration. That's fine. They can keep playing their little
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scandal games. We are going to keep pushing good conservative policy. So President Trump has done
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a very good job, obviously, a lot of conservative policy. The one big disappointment thus far has
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been the wall. I want the wall. The wall has not been built. Build the wall. You ran on build the
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wall. Build the wall won you the presidency. So build it already. President Trump is now threatening
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a government shutdown if the Congress does not approve funding for the wall. Now what happened?
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Congress and the White House have already passed most of the fiscal year 2019 budget. Most of that
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funding has already gone through. What's awaiting going through is funding that relates to the State
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Department, to the Justice Department, and to the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of
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Homeland Security and the Justice Department are the crucial executive agencies that will deal with
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illegal immigration and that will deal with the wall. Democrats don't want to fund the wall.
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Obviously, some Republicans don't want to fund the wall. They're going to hold this up. They're
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going to try to make a big issue of it. Donald Trump says he's going to shut down the government.
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Now, conservatives get squishy. They don't want to shut down the government. They're very afraid of all
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this. Shut it down. They absolutely should. Trump is threatening it. He should do it. He actually said
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about this. He said, I don't do anything just for political gain, but I will tell you, politically
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speaking, this issue is a total winner. People look at the border. They look at the rush to the
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police. They look at the rock throwers and really hurting people. Three people, three very brave border
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patrol folks. It's a tremendous issue and it's really needed. We have to have border security.
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He's absolutely right. This is, even if he did things for political gain, you know, probably people do
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that sometimes. He should do it. It's a big, big winner issue. And by the way, the Democrats won
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the Congress. This is our last chance to get border wall funding out of Congress. We're not going to
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get it back. Maybe we'll flip the house in 2020, but historically speaking, that's unlikely. This is
00:24:01.900
the last chance. Why not shut down the government over it? Shutting down the government is a win-win
00:24:06.340
for conservatives. If we shut it down to try to get good policy and we get the good policy out of it,
00:24:11.420
that's a win. If we shut it down and we fail to get the good policy, hey, at least we shut down the
00:24:16.540
government for a little bit. Works for me. Because when you shut down the government, they only shut
00:24:21.180
down non-essential services, which always raises the question, why do we have non-essential services?
00:24:28.260
Why does the government do non-essential things? Seems to me maybe we could keep that shut down
00:24:34.080
permanently. The rejoinder to this is that if we shut down the government, that's also going to
00:24:39.700
deplete funding for border security right now when you've got the caravan coming through.
00:24:43.820
Who cares? I know it's a big, the caravan is a real issue. Illegal immigration is a real issue.
00:24:49.400
We've got now record high illegal immigration, 2,000 people a day crossing the border. 2,000 people
00:24:55.060
is a drop in the bucket. How long is the government going to be shut down for? A day? Three days?
00:25:00.380
Two weeks? Okay. Two weeks? 28,000 people? We have upwards of 20 million illegal aliens in this
00:25:09.760
country. 28,000 people. To make a point, to drive that issue home is nothing. I mean, it's a drop in
00:25:16.880
the bucket. And by the way, if we shut down the government and then people start pouring over the
00:25:21.980
border, that only helps us politically. Because people see how awful that issue is. It brings it
00:25:26.360
back to the consciousness. And if it works, we get to build the wall. That's a win-win. This is a
00:25:31.060
no-brainer. Shut it down. We have much more to get to. We have got Ivanka Trump's emails. Democrats
00:25:38.300
are trying to compare Ivanka to Hillary. It's not a great comparison. I'm going to be very polite,
00:25:45.580
and I'm not going to tell the jokes that write them. No, I'm not going to do it. Also, a woman in
00:25:50.600
Texas is trying to castrate her six-year-old son, and John Bolton is right about everything,
00:25:55.540
as is usually the case. But before we get to all that, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook
00:26:00.120
and YouTube. If you're on Facebook and YouTube, I'm shocked you haven't been banned. You haven't
00:26:04.420
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00:26:08.340
keep the lights on. It's 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership. You get me. You get the
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00:26:17.860
oh, get your mailbag questions in. We'll be doing that tomorrow. You get to ask questions in the
00:26:22.020
conversation. That's coming up. You get a lot of stuff. Most importantly, you get the leftist
00:26:27.220
tiers tumbler, and that is very important. Look, the Mueller investigation is scary.
00:26:32.500
He's going after Trump. The Democrats are all going after Trump. Trump is going after. It's a
00:26:36.940
little scary. But when that Mueller investigation comes back and they don't get anything, they got
00:26:42.240
nothing on him, oh, you're going to be glad you have that tumbler. You're going to need that tumbler.
00:27:00.420
Ivanka's emails. Oh, no. They've got us now. Oh, the Democrat. You know the Democrat,
00:27:05.620
they get so excited on every little stupid issue. They think, oh, we've got you now. They wear those
00:27:09.800
shirts. They say, it's Mueller time. Cool. Cool guy. Yeah. Look great. It's, yeah, we got him.
00:27:16.160
This is the end of the Trump presidency. How many times have they said this is the end of the Trump
00:27:19.360
presidency? For about four times a day since November 9th, 2016. Now they're saying that
00:27:25.220
Ivanka Trump, who is not only Trump's daughter, but a staffer in the White House,
00:27:29.660
is guilty of the same thing Hillary Clinton's guilty of because she used her personal email
00:27:34.280
account to carry on some government business. Here's Ivanka explaining herself.
00:27:41.100
It has come to light that early in the administration, you used your private email
00:27:46.560
for White House business. Your father had taken Hillary Clinton to task for this. So how did you
00:27:55.020
Well, there really is no equivalency. All of my emails that relate to any form of government work,
00:28:02.000
which was mainly scheduling and logistics and managing the fact that I have a home life and a work life,
00:28:07.840
are all part of the public record. They're all stored on the White House system. So everything
00:28:13.540
has been preserved. Everything's been archived. There just is no equivalency between the two things.
00:28:20.400
There is no comparison. There actually is no equivalency. I think the left maybe genuinely
00:28:26.060
thinks there is, but it's because they never understood the Hillary Clinton scandal in the first
00:28:30.000
place. The Hillary Clinton scandal is not that she used her personal email account sometimes
00:28:35.460
to send emails. Virtually everybody does that in the government. Donald Trump uses his cell phone
00:28:41.800
sometimes. When he shouldn't use his cell phone, he carries it on him. People are worried that people
00:28:46.120
can listen in. Colin Powell did this. He used a private email account. John Kerry used a private
00:28:50.920
email account. But we didn't go after all of those guys in the way that we went after Hillary Clinton.
00:28:55.160
Why? Because the email account itself is not the problem. If Hillary were using a Gmail account even,
00:29:01.880
that wouldn't really be the problem. The problem is not that Hillary was using a private email
00:29:06.320
account. It's that she was using a private email server. When she was appointed Secretary of State,
00:29:11.780
she set up a private email server in her home that would store all of those emails. Why would she go
00:29:18.160
to the trouble of doing that? It was a completely unsecured server. The emails would have been much
00:29:22.260
safer on government servers. She did it to avoid public disclosure laws. She did it to avoid federal
00:29:28.440
record keeping laws. She did it to burn the records of whatever business dealings she was doing while
00:29:34.880
she was Secretary of State. And what business dealings was she doing? Well, we know a few of
00:29:39.080
them. We know that the Saudi regime gave her at least $10 million, maybe $25 million when she was
00:29:45.320
Secretary of State. That's a bribe. That is pay for play. They gave money to that foundation. Why did
00:29:50.460
they do it? Because the Saudi royal family is so charitable out of the goodness of their heart.
00:29:55.040
Saudi Arabia, the greatest exporter of radical Islamic terrorism in the world. Saudi Arabia,
00:30:01.580
the royal family that just chopped up that Islamist guy in Turkey, that cut him up while he was alive.
00:30:07.000
I don't think that they're the sweetest, most charitable people in the world. They were paying
00:30:11.180
to play. They were bribing the Secretary of State. So what else was going on? We know that Hillary Clinton
00:30:17.420
was involved in approving the sale of uranium to Russian interests while she was Secretary of State,
00:30:23.620
while her foundation, her slush fund, was receiving a ton of money from those very interests.
00:30:29.660
What else? What else was she doing? We don't know. Because not only did she avoid record keeping laws
00:30:36.340
and federal record laws, she then burned the server. She bleached it. She completely wiped it so that
00:30:42.100
nobody could get in there and look at those emails. By the way, you can never permanently delete
00:30:48.680
anything. It's very hard to actually delete files. So another question, we've been told that maybe
00:30:54.400
there are some copies of the emails, maybe there aren't. Why aren't we getting those emails?
00:30:58.780
Why aren't we digging that up? We really probably should be digging that up. And she would joke
00:31:03.560
about it. She was so flippant. She was asked by a journalist, shockingly, a journalist asked her a
00:31:08.560
tough question. And they said, did you wipe your server? And she said, ha ha ha, what? Wipe it like with a
00:31:13.580
cloth? No, wipe it like with bleach bit so that you can cover up the evidence of your corruption
00:31:20.020
and the bribes that you took when you were in our government. That's what it was. The issue is the
00:31:25.380
pay for play. The issue is the corruption. The issue is trying to hide from the American people.
00:31:29.760
Ivanka's emails sent on whatever server they were sent on are all there. We can find them. You can file
00:31:37.300
your Freedom of Information Act request, and you will be able to get those emails. Try filing a FOIA
00:31:43.060
request for Hillary Clinton's emails. Get back to me when you got them. Let me know. Let me know how
00:31:46.940
that turns out. In Texas, in Texas, a mother is trying to castrate her six-year-old son. This is
00:31:54.740
a truly horrific story, really awful child abuse, and a bizarre situation. So this woman in Texas is
00:32:02.020
forcing her six-year-old son to pretend to be a girl. I guess the mother and father are separated.
00:32:07.440
So when the child, when the son is with the mother, the mother insists that the son identifies
00:32:14.380
as a girl. Six years old. When I was six years old, I was Batman. Six years old, the son identifies
00:32:21.060
as a girl. So now she's forcing him to be like a girl, where it gets a little weird. Because I have
00:32:27.460
no doubt that a six-year-old kid has delusions. We've all had delusions. But when the kid is with the
00:32:32.240
father, the father is saying that the son insists on dressing like a boy and going by male pronouns
00:32:39.780
and being a boy. So who's telling the truth? You never know, and it takes two to tango. You never
00:32:44.720
know if the mother or father is telling the truth. But we know that the mother is dressing this little
00:32:48.780
boy as a girl and enrolled him in school as Luna at age five, five or six. According to the father,
00:32:57.960
quote, the boy violently refuses to wear girls' clothes at my home and identifies as a boy. So
00:33:05.700
in this situation, you've got a six-year-old boy. The mother says he's really a girl. The father says
00:33:10.120
he's really a boy. How do you think the courts are going to come down on this? Oh, they might take
00:33:16.360
away the father's custody rights to the kid and the rights to ever see that kid again. Of course,
00:33:21.040
because we're in 2018, because reality doesn't exist anymore. That's what's happening. The father is
00:33:26.540
being accused of child abuse for refusing to call the boy a girl. But the boy doesn't want to be
00:33:33.080
called a girl, apparently. The father is legally barred from discussing sexuality and gender with
00:33:40.180
his own son. And when the son is at his house, he has to offer the son boy's clothing and girl's
00:33:47.020
clothing. Now, again, this is where it gets a little weird. When the son is at the father's house,
00:33:54.200
apparently, the son always chooses the boy's clothing. He doesn't want to be dressed up like
00:33:58.700
a girl. But the father still can't discuss it with him. If he discusses it with him, he's going
00:34:03.880
to lose custody of his son. Or lose any visiting rights to his son, rather. Where is this all
00:34:09.800
coming from? The mother is forcing the little boy to go see an activist, political activist,
00:34:16.420
therapist, who is encouraging the boy to pretend to be a girl. And so is the boy, what is it? Is it the
00:34:23.220
mother is totally coercing the boy to put on a dress sometimes? Maybe. Is it that the activist
00:34:32.640
therapist is encouraging the boy to identify as a girl? Yeah, maybe, probably. But how do we decide?
00:34:39.580
How do we know what the reality is here? There's only one guide to the reality, which is the boy is a
00:34:46.100
boy. He is not a girl. Period. That's it. That's how we know the father's right. We don't know what
00:34:52.980
the boy says to the father. We don't know what the boy says to the mother. We don't know what the
00:34:55.560
mother... We don't know any of that. The way that we know that the father is 100% right, and the mother
00:35:00.340
and this horrible therapist are 100% wrong, is that the boy is a boy and not a girl. The way that we know
00:35:08.720
that this father should have full custody of his son 100% of the time, and then this mother and
00:35:13.440
therapist should be in prison or in mental institutions, is that the boy is a boy. What
00:35:19.740
do the mother and the therapist want to do? They want to shoot him full of hormones, prevent him
00:35:23.540
from going through puberty, and ruin his life. That is horrific. That should be a crime. These
00:35:30.240
people should be sent to prison for a long time, at least. Or a mental institution, because you'd have
00:35:35.420
to be insane to try to castrate a six-year-old boy and turn him into a girl. He isn't a boy,
00:35:40.300
he is a girl. This is a big issue in our culture. We make fun of this transgenderism ideology. We
00:35:49.280
don't make fun of the people who suffer from it, and a grown man thinks he's a woman. We
00:35:53.380
don't make fun of him. We have compassion for him, but we make fun of the ideology because
00:35:58.260
it's patently absurd. We know that men are not women. We know that women are not men. We
00:36:02.660
know that there is such a thing as sexual difference. We make fun of that, and it's very funny, and
00:36:06.680
we can laugh about it. But the rubber meets the road when you're talking about a little
00:36:10.480
six-year-old boy whose life is being ruined because of a horrific criminal mother and criminal
00:36:15.760
gender ideologue therapist who are trying to shoot him up full of hormones and castrate
00:36:21.420
him. Absolutely outrageous. And this is the logical conclusion of a culture and of a society
00:36:28.800
that indulge in delusion. Because here's what happens. This is how we get to this point.
00:36:35.060
We are walking down the street. We're in 2018. Everybody's just really cool, and if it feels
00:36:40.520
good, do it. I just feel like this, man, and I feel like this. Okay, we're here. And then
00:36:44.900
we all know somebody who I know. I know a couple people who have gender confusion, and they say,
00:36:51.760
I'm confused about my gender. I'm a man, but I feel like a woman. I'm really a woman on the
00:36:55.240
inside. And our first instinct is to have compassion for our friend. We say, oh, gosh,
00:37:00.420
well, he says, can you please call me a woman? Can you please use the female pronouns? And
00:37:05.780
we say, well, I really like my friend, and I don't want to be mean to him. And if he's
00:37:10.420
asking me to do him a favor, I'll do him the favor. So on this personal level, I will call
00:37:15.260
my male friend a woman because that seems like the polite thing to do. It seems like the polite
00:37:20.700
thing. Okay, maybe it is polite. Maybe it is nice. But it's not compassionate.
00:37:25.240
Because when you indulge in that delusion, you accept the premise that is not true,
00:37:29.900
that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. And when you accept that premise,
00:37:34.740
then why can't an 18-year-old physically mutilate himself? A confused, psychologically afflicted
00:37:43.300
18-year-old boy, why can't he mutilate himself to more closely resemble a woman? Even though that
00:37:49.400
surgery, that mutilation will have no effect on his anxiety, on his depression, on his likelihood
00:37:55.040
of suicide, it'll have no effect whatsoever. Even though many people who undergo that surgery
00:37:59.360
have deep regret afterward. A writer, Walt Heyer, is writing about this right now in The Federalist.
00:38:05.920
Even though, why not? Why can't that 18-year-old do it? And if an 18-year-old can do it,
00:38:12.000
why can't a 16-year-old do it? Actually though, what if we could prevent puberty altogether and the
00:38:19.160
development of secondary sex characteristics? Then probably it would be much better for people
00:38:24.160
who have gender confusion, right? Probably it would reduce their rates of anxiety and risk of suicide.
00:38:30.500
I mean, it doesn't. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that delaying puberty or blocking
00:38:37.340
puberty altogether reduces rates of anxiety or depression or likelihood of suicide in people
00:38:42.200
with gender confusion. Zilch. Zero scientific evidence. But you know, probably that's true.
00:38:46.660
So shouldn't we do it? Shouldn't we indulge in the insane delusions of six-year-old children and then
00:38:52.360
have our six-year-old children encourage them to mutilate their bodies and ruin their lives,
00:38:59.240
make a big spectacle of it, and then rob them of their fathers because their father says that the
00:39:03.080
boy is a boy and allows the boy who says he's a boy to be a boy. That's how we get to that point.
00:39:08.820
And it's not a far leap. So then when the left says that the right is being uncompassionate,
00:39:14.540
that we're not being kind to transgender people, that, you know, it's not kind to shoot up six-year-old
00:39:21.820
kids with a bunch of hormones and ruin their lives and mutilate their bodies and confuse them and rob
00:39:27.060
them of their fathers. That's not kind either. So if we're talking about kind and compassionate
00:39:31.520
and nice, let's be clear there. Now, the left-wing people who want to indulge in this gender ideology,
00:39:39.200
I think most of them have good intentions. Some of them have bad intentions. Some of them
00:39:43.040
are true ideologues who want to abolish gender altogether for their own political purposes.
00:39:47.800
Most of them, I think, have very good intentions. They want to be nice to people. Okay, the road to
00:39:53.260
hell is paved with good intentions. And if mutilating a little boy and confusing a little boy and robbing him
00:39:59.860
of his father because you don't want to allow him to be a boy, you'd rather him be a girl and wear dresses.
00:40:05.480
If that isn't right down the path to the very center of hell, I don't know what is.
00:40:11.240
I want to end on a good note today, and I want to talk about how great John Bolton is.
00:40:16.700
John Bolton was in a press conference yesterday, and he was asked about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
00:40:22.860
Remember Jamal Khashoggi? He is that Islamist Muslim Brotherhood apologist who was a Saudi regime
00:40:29.600
insider, and then he came to America and wrote a couple columns for the Washington Post,
00:40:34.420
and the left are pretending that he is a journalist, and he was killed in a Turkish embassy by the Saudi
00:40:40.180
government. John Bolton is asked about this killing, about why he's not outraged, why we're not ending our
00:40:47.180
relationship with Saudi Arabia, why he hasn't listened to the audio tape. And John Bolton
00:40:51.000
just gives us a little beautiful glimmer of sanity. Here he is.
00:40:55.820
So let me take the question of the tape first. No, I haven't listened to it.
00:41:00.160
And I guess I should ask you, why do you think I should? What do you think I'll learn from it?
00:41:04.880
Well, you're the national security advisor. You might have access to that sort of intelligence.
00:41:12.640
Well, you want me to listen to it? What am I going to learn from, I mean, if they were speaking
00:41:16.860
Korean, I wouldn't learn any more from it either.
00:41:19.000
The interpreter would be able to tell you what's going on.
00:41:22.900
Okay. So you don't think it's important. Have you heard that at the national security
00:41:26.160
officer? I'm just trying to make the point that everybody who says, why don't you listen
00:41:29.580
to the tape, unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?
00:41:35.140
The president has spoken to our position on this issue. He's spoken very clearly, and that
00:41:42.000
is our position. Now, tell me the other questions.
00:41:44.020
Do you want to be seen in Haspel from sharing the information with members of Congress?
00:41:50.820
Absolutely right. What a ridiculous question. They say, have you listened to the audio tape
00:41:54.760
of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi? Apparently, the Turks were bugging the embassy or something.
00:41:59.800
So we've got the audio tape. And he says, well, what would I learn from that? That's the real
00:42:03.960
question he's asking. He's sort of telling a little joke and saying, I don't speak Arabic.
00:42:07.620
But the broader question is, what would I learn from that audio tape that I wouldn't already
00:42:12.720
know? And they say, well, it was a brutal killing. You say, yeah, uh-huh. Right. Well,
00:42:18.380
it was used as an outrage. And for some reason, it's Trump's fault. And we should blow up our
00:42:22.100
relationship with Saudi Arabia and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What happened?
00:42:25.780
Because the media narrative is that the Saudi government, this is what they want you to
00:42:29.800
believe. The Saudi government killed, murdered in cold blood while he was alive, cut him up.
00:42:37.040
An American resident, they want you to believe resident is the same as citizen, an American
00:42:41.740
resident who's a journalist, who just wants democracy and liberalization. And they cut him
00:42:47.620
up in cold blood. And this should be an hour. We should go to war with Saudi Arabia. That's what
00:42:51.620
they want you to believe. What really happened? He's not a journalist. I guess technically he's a
00:42:57.000
journalist in that he wrote some things for the Washington Post. He wrote some things for
00:43:00.500
different newspapers. His actual career, Jamal Khashoggi, was as a Saudi regime insider. And
00:43:06.800
unfortunately for him, a different part of the Saudi royal family than he was allied with
00:43:11.520
has come up. And he's been a big critic of the current crown prince of Saudi Arabia,
00:43:17.800
Mohammed bin Salman. Why is he criticizing him? He thinks that Mohammed bin Salman is too easy
00:43:23.840
toward Israel. That he's too pro-Israel. He wishes that the Saudi government were more anti-Israel
00:43:28.840
because since he was a teenage boy, Jamal Khashoggi was associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical
00:43:35.960
organization in the Middle East that would wreak absolute havoc on the Saudi kingdom and on the
00:43:40.960
entire region. So he was a regime insider. He worked for the regime. He was a spy. He's all these
00:43:46.760
things. He hung out with Osama bin Laden in the 80s. There's a photo of him holding an RPG
00:43:51.660
in Afghanistan. He wept. He admitted this. He wept over the death of Osama bin Laden when U.S.
00:43:58.460
forces killed him. He's an Islamist. He's a apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood. And he was
00:44:05.540
killed by rival forces in the Middle East, the Saudi royal government. Okay, is that to say it's a good
00:44:12.720
thing that they cut him up while he was alive, that they assassinated this guy who was undermining the
00:44:17.260
regime? No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's par for the course. Saudi Arabia does stuff like
00:44:21.580
this all the time. All of these Islamist governments do. They constantly are killing
00:44:27.380
political opponents, doing horrific things. There's a part of Saudi Arabia that's called
00:44:33.940
Chop Chop Square because they behead people there. Yeah, what's unusual about this? The reason that
00:44:40.420
they're trying to make a story out of it is because they want to go after Donald Trump. They want to
00:44:44.620
pretend that it's Donald Trump's fault. There's nothing new here. What's the lesson? People have been
00:44:48.600
getting very upset because I've been saying this is not a story. And they say, how dare you? He was
00:44:53.080
a person. We'll have compassion. What do you think? You think it's okay? No. My conclusion is if you
00:44:59.020
pal around with Islamists, bad things are going to happen. That's what you can learn. You don't need
00:45:04.240
to listen to the tape of him being murdered. You don't need to listen to the tape of him talking
00:45:09.040
about how much he liked Osama bin Laden. You don't need to listen. Here's what you need to know.
00:45:12.900
If you pal around with Islamists, bad things are going to happen. That's a fact check. True. I want
00:45:18.460
Snopes to fact check that. Okay, that's our show today. I'll be speaking tonight at Embry Riddle.
00:45:23.940
I'm here still in Florida, and then I'll be flying back soon. So if you're in town, come check it out.
00:45:28.600
We're gonna have a lot of fun. Otherwise, I will see you tomorrow. Get your mailbag questions in.
00:45:32.400
In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:45:35.020
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00:45:45.920
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00:45:50.940
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